EMD2015 "Maritime Cultural Heritage & Blue Growth" workshop invitation

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Maritime Cultural Heritage and Blue Growth: Whatʼs the Connection?

The European Marine Board invites you to this EMD workshop on 28 May 2015 (11:00-12:00) at Skalkotas Hall, Athens Concert Hall, Greece

The workshop will highlight the significant but largely unknown cultural heritage of human settlements that exist in the shallow shelf seas around Europe. Public interest in the discovery of prehistoric remains found in coastal seas has enormous tourism potential, a considerable sector in the European maritime economy. The role of the maritime industry in discovering submerged archaeological sites has been very important. Jointly presented by research, industry and heritage management organisations, this workshop will showcase that the offshore economy can benefit from a cross-sectoral interaction to safeguard archaeological finds, to aid in their discovery and management, and to avoid unnecessary delays for commercial activities.

Workshop Speakers

Prof. Geoff Bailey ()Moderator
Professor of, Prehistoric Archaeology ofYorkUniversity

Dr. Elena Kountouri, Head of the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs will give a presentation on "Heritage at the bottom of the sea. The experience of the Greek Archaeological Service."

Dr. Dimitris Sakellariou
Research Director of Marine Geology and Marine Geoarchaeology, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

Mr. Euan McNeill

, & Director, Coastal Marine Wessex Archaeology on behalf of British Marine ProducersAssociationAggregate

Dr. Henk Weerts

, Senior Researcher Cultural Heritage Agency theNetherlandsof

 

Prof. Tiedo Vellinga
Professor of Ports and Waterways, TU Delft & Director Environmental Monitoring Maasvlakte 2, Port of Rotterdam

Dr. Nena Galanidou
Associate Professor in, Prehistoric Archaeology Department of History, and Archaeology ofCreteUniversity

Ms. Andrea Klomp
Senior, Policy Advisor Cultural heritage Agency theNetherlandsof

The workshop is proposed based on the recommendations of the European Marine Board expert working group on continental shelf prehistoric research, to build a sustainable network across various maritime economic activities to document discoveries, to enhance research, and to reduce the cost and complexity of enforcing conditions of licensing.

Summary of the workshop

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Coping with sea level change is nothing new in human history. With the melting of ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age, sea level rose 130m, flooding 20 million km²of prime territory. This submerged landscape contains many thousands of valuable archaeological sites, data on past climate and sea level change, and important lessons and insights into how we might cope with the impact of future sea level change.

This underwater cultural archive is opening up a new era of archaeological exploration, stimulating new technologies of investigation, and engaging wide public interest. But it is also vulnerable to destruction from many natural processes and human activities. If it is not to be lost for ever, this unique record needs to be investigated and managed at an international scale by research institutions working together and in collaboration with industrial and commercial enterprises and government agencies.

We will present examples of such collaboration from the Port of Rotterdam expansion project and from aggregate dredging in the North Sea.
 

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Univ. of Crete
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